May 14

May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (135th in leap
years). There are 231 days remaining.

Events

   * 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France
     making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
   * 1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat
     Venitians.
   * 1643 - Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of
     his father, Louis XIII.
   * 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write
     a new Constitution for the United States.
   * 1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
   * 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and
     begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
   * 1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris, France
   * 1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the
     Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000
     donation from John D. Rockefeller.
   * 1935 - Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
   * 1940 - World War II: The Dutch city of Rotterdam is bombed by the
     German Luftwaffe.
   * 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.
   * 1948 - Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a
     provisional government is established.
   * 1948 - The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads
     to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt
     to find the murderer.
   * 1955 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet
     Union sign a mutual-defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
   * 1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is
     fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are
     beaten by an angry mob.
   * 1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
   * 1995 - The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the
     eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
   * 1998 - After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television
     sitcom Seinfeld aires on NBC.

Births

   * 1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1378)
   * 1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, artist (+ 1788)
   * 1867 - Kurt Eisner, politician and publicist (+ 1919)
   * 1869 - Friedrich Karl Kleine, physician (+ 1951)
   * 1884 - Claude Dornier, aircraft designer (+ 1969)
   * 1885 - Otto Klemperer, conductor (+ 1973)
   * 1912 - Ben Hogan, golfer (+ 1997)
   * 1917 - Lou Harrison, composer (+ 2003)
   * 1922 - Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia (+ 1999)
   * 1929 - Gump Worsley, Hockey Hall of Famer
   * 1931 - Alvin Lucier, composer
   * 1934 - Si‰n Phillips, actress
   * 1936 - Bobby Darin, singer (+ 1973)
   * 1943 - Jack Bruce, bass guitarist
   * 1944 - George Lucas, film director and producer
   * 1952 - David Byrne, singer, songwriter, guitarist
   * 1952 - Robert Zemeckis, director
   * 1961 - Tim Roth, actor
   * 1965 - Eoin Colfer, writer

Deaths

   * 1610 - King Henry IV of France
   * 1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, composer and pianist
   * 1912 - August Strindberg, author
   * 1925 - H. Rider Haggard, author
   * 1931 - David Belasco, writer
   * 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, artist
   * 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer
   * 1987 - Rita Hayworth, actress
   * 1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., magician
   * 1998 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor
   * 2003 - Dave DeBusschere, NBA basketball player
   * 2003 - Robert Stack, actor

Holidays and observances

   * Paraguay - Flag Day

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